René Redzepi

Three Michelin stars.

It closed in 2024 because that kind of really f- high-end fine dining model wasn't sustainable slash- Its head chef, René Redzepi, has now been, like, completely shut down for all of these crazy abuse cases that keep popping up.

Mm.

So it's just example of the worst, like, that-

I mean, I was all alone out there, more or less.

There was me and René Redzepi.

And then a lot of other Scandinavian followed over the years.

There was also somebody called Andreas Wittstadt.

But I think Noma, Noma created, uh, a new way of thinking after El Bulli and, and Ferran Adria did it.

So in terms of influence, I have to put René Redzepi-

Mm-hmm

... absolutely on number two, um, because he paved ways for, for a lot of chefs nowadays that we couldn't imagine possible 10 years ago.

I think that...

I don't know how many of you saw the very recent announcement by Rene Redzepi of Noma that he's choosing after 20 years to close.

And I think if you... parse through that and just kind of look at the very big picture of it.

I think some of it is probably him not saying this, but maybe he's just exhausted because fine dining is an exhausting process.

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Redzepi or whoever has."

Sure.

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